Adaptation, Collaboration, Contention: Colombian Higher Education Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Iván F. Pacheco; Daniel Toro González

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Colombian Higher Education Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Iván F. Pacheco

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Pages:: 154–168

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004520554_010

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When the COVID pandemic struck Colombia, the first academic semester of 2020 was already underway. Neither the government nor higher education institutions (HEI s) were prepared, but they adapted to the new reality. Adaptation, collaboration, and contention marked Colombian higher education’s response to the pandemic. The Colombian government, HEI s, faculty members, staff, and students adapted to the crisis in the best possible manner. The government issued regulations, revisited policies and procedures and provided financial resources within its capacities. HEI s offered to the government and society their support in efforts to mitigate the impact of the pandemic and swiftly adjusted their schedules and methodologies to a remote teaching mode. However, the crisis highlighted the country’s weaknesses in higher education financing, and a contention dynamic between mostly students and the government, which predated the pandemic and gained relevance when the needs of students and HEI s became more pressing. This chapter explores the impact of COVID in the Colombian higher education system during 2020 and 2021 and focuses on the financial challenges of the system. The first part highlights the prompt but uncoordinated and insufficient collaboration of different stakeholders. The second part addresses the major financial challenges from the perspectives of institutions and the students and provides examples of what HEI s and the government were able to provide in response to the crisis. Finally, in the third part, we analyse the country’s response to the pandemic and its challenges in higher education financing in the next few years.

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Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cross-National Perspectives on the Challenges and Management of Higher Education in Crisis Times

Series: Global Perspectives on Higher Education, Volume: 53

Cover Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 02 Jun 2022

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